Since its establishment in 1964, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), with its two departments, has devoted itself to investigating the history of law in Europe and beyond. Its research, its specialised library with more than 470,000 printed items and its numerous cooperations has made it one of the central research hubs for the worldwide scientific community concerned with investigating our past and present national and transnational legal orders.

Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

Since its establishment in 1964, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), with its two departments, has devoted itself to investigating the history of law in Europe and beyond. Its research, its specialised library with more than 470,000 printed items and its numerous cooperations has made it one of the central research hubs for the worldwide scientific community concerned with investigating our past and present national and transnational legal orders.

The library is closed for external users until further notice.

Due to the closing of the library for external users, the institute building will be closed daily at 4 pm, from 16.03.2020 on.

European and Comparative Legal History
(Department I)

Stefan Vogenauer

Historical Regimes of Normativity 
(Department II)

Thomas Duve

Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent

Research Group

Translations and Transitions

Research Group

News

The relaunch of our website:  it's not just a new design

April 03, 2020

Before Vitoria. Birr’s and Egío’s Contribution to Brill Companion to Early Modern Spanish Imperial Political and Social Thought

March 12, 2020

Precautionary measures due to the spreading of Covid-19

March 04, 2020

† Filippo Ranieri

February 26, 2020

On Usury and Slavery: two new articles in the research paper series

February 12, 2020

The School of Salamanca: New Digital Edition of Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda’s Apologia now online

February 05, 2020

Events

Conference: "4th Annual Conference: Law and Policy in European Integration (1960s-1990s)"

Jun 9, 2020 09:30 - Jun 10, 2020 16:00
MPIeR, Room: Z01

Recent Publications


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